Interview in Waylines Magazine

Waylines Magazine interviewed our Trevin Matcek about his work on the inspiration and more behind Life Begins at Rewirement.  It's a great publication featuring short stories and films, along with interviews of the writers and filmmakers who made them. Check. It. Out. 

Q&A with Writer/Director Trevin Matcek
http://www.waylinesmagazine.com/thismonthswritersfilmmakersissue5.html#.UjlBnBZU93g
 

Photos: YOU, ME & WE Screening at Hammer Museum

There is nothing like a big, beautiful theater filled with an audience watching your film.

Thanks so much to Meg and Jonathan Wells for including us in such a wonderful collection of films.

YOU, ME & WE screens 8/4 at Hammer Museum

It's the short that keeps on giving! 

YOU, ME & WE - written/directed by Trevin Matcek screens 8/14 at the Hammer Museum in LA as part of the Flux Screening Series. Inspired from a scene in THINGS WE'VE MADE, YOU, ME & WE follows a gathering of human clones in group therapy.

Tix are free, please join us for the film and the after-party!

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. 

Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Program will also be screened in the Annex and Cafe.

Parking is available under the Museum. There is a $3 flat rate after 6:30 p.m.

Flux Screening Series
Wednesday August 14, 2013
6:30 pm box office opens
7:30 pm screening
followed-by an after-party in the Hammer courtyard


Hammer Museum
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000

LIFE BEGINS Screens at Santa Monica Film Festival

Life Begins at Rewirement screens this 5 p.m., Saturday Aug. 3 at the Santa Monica Film Festival. Tix are free! Bring your friends, family and Domestic Android Nurses!

Lo-fi Sci-fi Digs LIFE BEGINS

We love that our projects allow us to connect with total strangers all over the world. A great blog called Lo-fi Sci-fi did a write-up on LIFE BEGINS earlier this year. After a little digging, we learned the site is from Jim Munroe, a Toronto-based sci-fi author, filmmaker and DIY evangelist. His No Media Kings blog is full of advice and inspiration on making your own content - from video games to movies to novels. We picked Jim's brain a little about our film:

How did you hear about Futurestates?

First through Eric Zimmerman, a game developer I know who has a short in the first series, and then via Matthew Meschery at Indiecade.

You mentioned LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT was your favorite from Season 3 of Futurestates. Why?

 I liked that it was focused on an under-exposed time in life -- moving parents to an old-age home.

What was your favorite part of the film?

The moment when he goes back and realizes her favourite moment is with him as a child -- a moment he'd forgotten. It redeems both of these fairly unlikeable characters somehow.

Check out the trailer to Jim's film GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS:

Want to submit a video to Lo-fi Sci-fi? Go here.

io9 Showcases LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT

Shut the front door, LIFE BEGINS is featured on one of our favorite sites in the world - io9!

Writer Lauren Davis gives us some love and acknowledges our amazing cast. Take a look here:

Would You Upload Your Aging Parent's Consciousness to a Nursing Home?

Director Trevin Matcek Speaks at USC: Science in Film

Back in November, Trevin was asked to speak at his alma mater USC for students competing in a short film competition dealing with scientific themes. The students were tasked with explaining and illustrating a scientific concept, principle, or issue for a wide, non-expert audience. Though Trevin's most recent work has dealt with futuristic sci-fi, his stories are based on real concepts and research. Here, he talks about how to create a futuristic world on a low a budget as seen in LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT and more.

OBLIVION in Theaters This Weekend

A movie I put six months of my life into comes out today. I worked on the previsualization team, helping director Joe Kosinski bring this futuristic world to screen. See it (in IMAX) if you can. Really proud of it. Big world, small story. Cold sci-fi that still has a pulse - and wears its heart on its sleeve...Trevin

New Screening Added for YOU, ME + WE in Seattle

If you missed your chance to get tickets to the 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival and see YOU, ME + WE, there's another opportunity! Another screening has been added on Sunday Jan. 20, tickets available here. We're really looking forward to this festival.

Full report to follow...

YOU, ME + WE to Screen in Seattle!

This little short just keeps on kicking, next up is the Sci-Fi + Fantasy Short Film Fest in Seattle! We'll be screening at the Cinerama Theater on a 90 feet screen for a sold-out crowd of 800. Trevin will be in attendance. Looking forward to watching it with this enthusiastic crowd in the Northwest.

LIFE BEGINS Online Screening

There was very little notice, but we had a fantastic online screening event presented by ITVS where we could watch LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT and be connected in an interactive discusssion. It was a blast and we loved hearing from teachers who said their students were very much into the short (despite what some educational advisors thought). We've found that kids and teenagers are especially touched by the story, as they identify with their grandparents and parents going through similar situations.

Thanks to everyone who joined! What could be more appropriate for a film about connecting virtually with a loved one than to meet viewers online to talk about it? You view the archived log by going here and hitting the "Enter Anonymously" button.

The Robots are Coming!

This commercial for GE celebrates the optimism, fun and excitement behind technology. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of Little Miss Sunshine fame, this spot gathers the most famous robots in real life and pop culture. K.I.T.T.! Asimo! Robby the robot and more!

Jill Andre in THE MASTER

Catch our very own Jill Andre (who starred as Life Begins at Rewirement's Jessica), in Paul Thomas Anderson's latest mesmerizing pic, The Master.

Aging Online Profiles LIFE BEGINS

Jamie Carracher of the senior tech blog Aging Online interviews director Trevin Matcek on LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT. Click below to read the article:  

Don't Retire, Rewire: Does the Future of Eldercare Include Uploading Your Consciousness?

 

We highly recommend checking the rest of this blog out, which covers how seniors are embracing technology and the changing face of aging.

We're thrilled that Things We've Made is being promoted in Creative Capital's On Our Radar database as a "Project To Watch." 

Creative Capital is an amazing supportive organization of the arts crossing many disciplines. It's an honor to be included in the impressive array of traditional and non-traditional storytelling from filmmakers all over the country.

Describing LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT as "entertaining, thought-provoking and disturbing pending some unanswered questions," blogger Joared at Along The Way has started a fascinating discussion about the film with her readers. As an active parent, grandparent, student and rehab professional working with adults part time, her perspective on life and aging is on many levels. 

In "Digitally Rewired Senior Life," check out her post and comments from the readers about what they thought of LIFE BEGINS.

Behind the Scenes story on LBAR

Read about the visual design of LIFE BEGINS and how we shot it using the ARRI ALEXA. Being able to use this camera elevated the production value in countless ways. Click below to read the article featuring interviews with DP Jaron Presant and writer/director Trevin Matcek:

Cinematic Sci-Fi in LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT

LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT Now Online

At long last, it's finally here for your viewing pleasure...LIFE BEGINS has launched online at PBS and the Futurestates website. Put your headphones on and crank it up!

Watch Life Begins at Rewirement - A Future Friday Premiere on PBS. See more from FutureStates.

Don't forget to vote for the Audience Award!

Unfortunately the video player is not viewable on iPhones or iPads unless you download the PBS viewing app. It's free and will allow nothing to come between you, LIFE BEGINS  and DOWNTON ABBEY.

LIFE BEGINS Soundtrack Now Available on iTunes

One of the most fulfilling collaborations on Life Begins at Rewirement was working with composer Keith Ruggiero of Soviet to create the soundtrack. We're please to announced the soundtrack is being released by Ojet Records and is now available on iTunes! Digital download includes exclusive behind-the-scenes stills, director and composer notes. Go here to purchase.


Listen to a track here:

 

The 10-track album has been described by Trevin as "the heartbeat" of the film. Striking "hot and cold balance by mixing analog and digital." Says Matcek, "The result is synthetic, but never artificial. It's warm and earnest, with a layer of loneliness just below the surface. Keith summed up the feeling it creates with a single word: chills." 

LIFE BEGINS Premieres at Tribeca

It was amazing festival premiere at Tribeca for Life Begins at Rewirement! The theater was packed and our film had quite an enthusiastic response. Here's a pic of writer/director Trevin Matcek during the Q&A afterwards, where he was joined by other Futurestates directors Patrick Stettner, Jennifer Phang and Nanobah Becker. People loved the near future world of Life Begins and definitely want to see more. We're looking forward to more festival dates at a theater near you and using it as a launch pad for Things We've Made!